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Huckleberry Festival to provide family fun activities August 8-10

THOMPSON FALLS- With the Huckleberry Festival in Trout Creek right around the corner, the Thompson Falls monthly chamber meeting featured multiple presentations to prepare local businesses for the event.

The Legard boys raise hogs for 4-H auction

Dixon trades old fire engine for a new one, courtesy of the DNRC

Jamie Doran

Plains Day comes with fun and sun

Plains Day is not just a day to celebrate the town, but a day when people of all ages; young, teens and adults can gather together to share their fondness for the community they call home.

Plains 4-H club shooters get ready for tournament

Members of the Southside Sparks 4-H are setting their sights and taking aim at two upcoming shooting tournaments.

Former Horsemen to pass down basketball knowledge at upcoming summer camp

Former Plains Horsemen basketball players Andy Swanson and Royce Johnston are hoping to help aid in carrying on the basketball tradition that is well-established in Plains.

Officials finalize plans for Growth Policy update

Mineral County officials are close to finalizing plans to update the Growth Policy by the beginning of next month.

Trading up for a better deal

By David Levine

Alberton couple locate victim

MISSOULA COUNTY – The Rausch family from Alberton only intended to spend the day cutting firewood just across the county line in Missoula County but what they came upon while driving home last Sunday, March 22 would change their course of action dramatically.

Karen Thorson in attendance at Paradise art show

PLAINS – When Karen Thorson steps into her studio, her face lights up. It’s a place all her own where she can create to her heart’s content. The small, tidy area is filled with paintings, glass and clay sculptures – three different venues of art Thorson produces.

Fair comes to Superior

SUPERIOR – All the sights, sounds and smells of an old fashioned county fair were in Superior last weekend as residents from across the region gathered for the 2014 Mineral County Fair.

Restaurant Impossible takes over

PLAINS – Heather’s Country Kitchen is about to undergo a major facelift, gaining them national attention.

Local artist recreates and improves on masterpiece

PLAINS – Kenton Pies created a legend on Mercer Island nearly 50 years ago and now he has the opportunity to recreate and improve on that legend.

Local author holds book signing

Mineral kids hunt for treasures for parents

Holiday shopping never was so easy for children in Mineral County, thanks to the Clark Fork Valley Women in Timber.

Local long shot hits bullseye

Thompson Falls graduate Nicole Hagedorn set a National Record by shooting a 431-5X in the junior, open category of the F-Class Long Range Regional at the Deep Creek Range in Missoula on Sept. 24-26.

Support for SB 265 - delay the water compact

Some say it will utterly destroy farming, ranching, lives, and land values in northwestern Montana. Others argue there’s nothing to fear in the massive Salish-Kootenai water rights compact. Both sides agree the economic implications are perhaps the largest we will see in our lifetime. But there is a strong disagreement over whether those outcomes will be good or bad.

Plains volunteers create Merry Christmas for young and old

There, inside the old Plains school house on Montana 200, was a sight to behold, especially for the young at heart...

Superior Bobcats begins season 0-2

Friday, the Trojans of Drummond ambushed the Superior Bobcats early and kept attacking as they rolled